Chapter 63

Mia’s smile was all the response needed.

Her mother was smiling, too. "I can’t thank you enough," she said. "I don’t know what I would have done if you two hadn’t found me."

"It was our pleasure," Joey said. Wasn’t it, Penny?"

"Sure was." Penny's smile lit up her face and Joey's heart gave a curious little extra thump. He turned away from that smile to say goodbye to Mia and her mother. It wouldn’t make any difference because he couldn't act on that attraction. He wasn’t even going to be in the same house with her soon if everything went well, which was a good thing for him

With the passion she always displayed with Howard and to keep her independence, he knew that Penny was the type of woman who would fall in love and be just as passionate about being a loving and loyal partner. Just as she had been with Jeremy.

The guy that would win that love would be the luckiest man on earth. The image of Penny standing there with her baby in her arms was still